Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 116. Remote sensing is an essential tool for many Earth and planetary scientists. When studying the atmosphere, the land, the ocean floor, or for that matter the surfaces of other planets, remote sensing has deepened and expanded our understanding in immediate and dramatic ways. This is especially true for volcanologists concerned with active volcanic processes. Technological advances in collecting data from a satellite or an aircraft, however, also require human skills specific to the medium, and nowhere more so than in processing and interpreting data in ways that are different from those skills needed with a field-oriented approach. In this volume on the remote sensing of active volcanoes, we clarify and address those differences. At the same time, we seek to stimulate greater interaction between remote sensing specialists and field volcanologists, aided by the tutorials and background information we have included.

Table of Contents:
Dedication to Peter Francis Dave Rothery, Shan de Silva, and Peter Mouginis-Mark vii Preface Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joy A. Crisp, and Jonathan H. Fink ix Introduction Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joy A. Crisp, and Jonathan H. Fink 1 Acquisition of Satellite Data for Volcano Studies Peter J. Mouginis-Mark and Natalie Domergue-Schmidt 9 Volcanic Plumes Ultraviolet Remote Sensing of Volcanic Emissions Arlin J. Krueger, Stephen J. Schaefer, Nickolay Krotkov, Gregg Bluth, and Sharon Barker  25 TOMS and AVHRR Observations of Drifting Volcanic Clouds From the August 1991 Eruptions of Cerro Hudson Emily K. Constantine, Gregg J. S. Bluth, and William I. Rose 45 Monitoring and Analyses of Volcanic Activity Using Remote Sensing Data at the Alaska Volcano Observatory: Case Study for Kamchatka, Russia, December 1997 D. J. Schneider, K. G. Dean, J. Dehn, T. P. Miller, andV. Yu. Kirianov 65 Retrieval of Sulfate and Silicate Ash Masses in Young (1 to 4 Days Old) Eruption Clouds Using Multiband Infrared HIRS/2 Data Tianxu Yu and William I. Rose  87 Volcanic Gases The Potential Use of Earth Observing System Data to Monitor the Passive Emission of Sulfur Dioxide From Volcanoes V. J. Realmuto 101 Passive Infrared Spectroscopic Remote Sensing of Volcanic Gases: Ground-Based Studies at White Island and Ruapehu, New Zealand, and Popocatepetl, Mexico Steven P. Love, Fraser Goff, Stephen C. Schmidt, Dale Counce, Donald Pettit, Bruce W. Christenson, and Claus Siebe 117 Thermal Properties Real-time Satellite Monitoring of Volcanic Hot Spots Andrew J. L. Harris, Luke P. Flynn, Ken Dean, Eric Pilger, Martin Wooster, Chris Okubo, Peter Mouginis-Mark, Harold Garbeil, Carl Thornber, Servando De la Cruz-Reyna, Dave Rothery, and Robert Wright 139 High-Spatial-Resolution Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Volcanic Features Using Landsat and Hyperspectral Data Luke R Flynn, Andrew J. L. Harris, David A. Rothery, and Clive Oppenheimer 161 Deformation and Topography Remote Sensing of Volcano Surface and Internal Processes Using Radar Interferometry Howard A. Zebker, Falk Amelung, and Sjonni Jonsson 179 Remote Sensing of Volcano Deformation by Radar Interferometry from Various Satellites Didier Massonnet and Freysteinn Sigmundsson 207 Slopes of Oceanic Basalt Volcanoes Scott K. Rowland and Harold Garbeil 223 Using Airborne Laser Altimetry to Detect Topographic Change at Long Valley Caldera, California M. A. Hofton, J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway N. R Williams, J. B. Blair, D. L Rabine, and J. L. Button  249 Appendices List of Acronyms 265 Volcanoes Included in This Volume 267 Wavelength Regions for Volcano Studies 269